TWO RARE AMBER AND GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY HILL JARS AND COVERS, lian, each supported on three animal-mask unglazed feet, freely painted with highly stylised dancers trailing long swirling scarves, one within two bands of impressed concentric diamonds, the other within moulded ribs, the conical cover with three studs, Han Dynasty

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TWO RARE AMBER AND GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY HILL JARS AND COVERS, lian, each supported on three animal-mask unglazed feet, freely painted with highly stylised dancers trailing long swirling scarves, one within two bands of impressed concentric diamonds, the other within moulded ribs, the conical cover with three studs, Han Dynasty
approx 20cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

The result of thermoluminescence test, Oxford 666e68, is consistent with the dating of this lot

The appearance of both green and amber lead glazes on a single piece is rare in the Han period. A very similar lian and cover without the linear dancers, is in the Tenri Musuem, Nara, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.8, Tokyo, 1955, pl.13, and in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, pl.57, p.34. Cf.also the example in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.10, fig.20 from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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